A day after the Samanjwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) officially announced their alliance for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Congress on Sunday, 13 January, said it will contest in all 80 seats from Uttar Pradesh.
“We will fight in all 80 seats of Uttar Pradesh in upcoming Lok Sabha elections. We are fully prepared. And just like the Congress emerged the No 1 party in Uttar Pradesh in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, we will fight on our own and win twice those number of seats in upcoming elections,” said a senior Congress leader in Delhi.
Addressing a press meet, Congress Leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said the Congress was ready to ally with any party against the BJP and that they weren’t the ones who broke the alliance in the first place.